This is hard. I just transitioned into being a boss about 3 weeks ago and it has been a totally new world for me. The summer has been particularly hard I think because work is very sporadic One week we will be slammed with work and I won't have a single second free and the next we will be relaxed all week with almost no requests coming in and a few projects that we knock out in a few hours, which leaves us time to do things like write in our blog. Life is like that sometimes, and we don't really care, but as a boss you have to care. You want your workers to feel like they are accomplishing something, to want to come to work because they feel like they change something, not just sit on their computers and play solitaire. I want to make the work experience something that is organized and fulfilling, but not too busy that it isn't also fun sometimes. That's really hard to do.
I have a burning desire to be liked, but also to make sure that my student workers are being productive and not being viewed as slackers. It's a pretty interesting place to be, a place that I am growing into, and definitely something that I am glad I am getting to experience at this time and season in my life. My wife has been enormously helpful in my quest to become a better boss (she is a boss herself), and she has given me great ideas and suggestions over the last couple weeks! I just wanted to talk about that. That's all.
Do you supervise anyone? What is it like for you? Do you run into any obstacles? Do you like it or hate it?
I have a burning desire to be liked, but also to make sure that my student workers are being productive and not being viewed as slackers. It's a pretty interesting place to be, a place that I am growing into, and definitely something that I am glad I am getting to experience at this time and season in my life. My wife has been enormously helpful in my quest to become a better boss (she is a boss herself), and she has given me great ideas and suggestions over the last couple weeks! I just wanted to talk about that. That's all.
Do you supervise anyone? What is it like for you? Do you run into any obstacles? Do you like it or hate it?